I’m fairly sure I’m not in denial about underwear shopping. I walk casually past the K-Mart and stall when I see the 25% Off Underwear sign. I stop and rub my chin so as to give the impression that this is the first I have known of this sale. I check the time on my …
I think the time has come for me to gush about Freaks and Geeks. Freaks and Geeks was a TV show made for NBC in 1999-2000 about the ‘freaks’ and ‘geeks’ at an American high school in 1980. The show was produced by Paul Feig and Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, Superbad and The 40 Year-Old …
When I went to see an unorganised Janeane Garofalo at the Melbourne Comedy Festival tonight – and sat in a crowded room full of people – I realised one of my greatest skills in life is folding my legs away to let people walk to/from their seat. It doesn’t matter if I’m sitting in the …
As the title of my upcoming book is The Greatest Blogger in the World I have started to be asked questions like, ‘Do you think you’re the greatest blogger in the world?’ and ‘What’s it like having a blog and talking online?’ Firstly, I am not, will never be, don’t want to be, can’t think …
So it turns out that April is Blog Every Day April. It’s a fun lil bandwagon that I have decided to jump onto. New York YA writer Maureen Johnson is heading up the BEDA (I love a good acronym) action and bloggers around the world are taking up the challenge, because, really, who can resist …
While the world salivates over the new pics of the Where the Wild Things Are movie I thought I would share an illustration of one of the characters from my upcoming book The Greatest Blogger in the World. Let me introduce you to Barcode. This little guy (as drawn by the clever Gregory Baldwin) plays …
I was raised in an outer suburb of Melbourne called Watsonia. The only real thing of note in Watsonia is the Simpson Army Barracks which began life as the Watsonia Military Camp in WWII. Apparently there’s lots of communications equipment at the Army Barracks which means that if Australia is ever invaded Watsonia would be …
The good ol’ author pic is the ire of almost all authors. Often found on the back sleeve of a book, it’s easy to see why the common author treats their back-of-the-book pic with general disdain. There’s a reason movie directors don’t flash their portaits onto the big screen at the end of their movies. …
I don’t know why I like the Sad Clowns so. Ever since Housemate #1 acquired the painting of the clowns sitting on clouds of bald ogre-type man-heads I have liked them. Clowns are the poor occasion’s Santa. They come out for birthdays and country fairs – things which become less awesome as we grow old. …